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Abstract: Miscellaneous correspondence and documents relating mainly to his military career
during the Mexican revolution, 1911-1913, including orders of the day and payroll records, a description
of the battle of the Hacienda of San Felipe in 1913; and clippings.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

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intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.

Broadsides and other printed materials, some photographs and maps were removed for separate
cataloging.

Photographs have been transferred to the Portrait Files of The Bancroft Library.

Scope and Content

Samuel G. Vázquez was involved in various military operations in Mexico particularly during
the period 1911-1913. These papers, purchased from his widow, Mrs Bertha W. Vázquez, June 2,
1972, include documents from Pascual Orozco, Francisco I. Madero, Edward F. Hay, Venustiano Carranza,
Pablo González, Emilio Salinas and others; orders of the day and payroll records; a
description of the battle at the Hacienda of San Felipe in 1913; clippings and photographs.

Broadsides and other printed materials, some photographs and maps were removed for separate cataloging.

A calendar and a partial list of correspondents and signers of documents follow.

Partial list of correspondents and signers of documents

Bonilla, Manuel, 1867-1957
Folder no. 8

Carranza, Venustiano, 1859-1920
Folders no. 8,
20

Estrada, Roque, 1883-
Folder no. 8

González, Abraham, 1864-1913
Folder no. 8

González, Pablo, 1879-1950
Folders no. 25,
26,
27,
35,
41,
42

González Garza, Federico, 1876-1951
Folder no. 8

Hay, Edward F., 1872-1941
Folders no. 8,
11

Madero, Francisco Ignacio, 1873-1913
Folders no 3,
8,
57

Madero, Raúl
Folder no. 8

Orozco, Pascual, 1882-1915
Folders no. 4,
5,
6,
8

Pérez Treviño, Manuel, 1890-1945
Folder no. 50

Pesqueira, Ignacio L., 1867-1940
Folder no. 43

Salinas, Emilio, d. 1927
Folders no. 22,
23

Sánchez Azcona, Juan, 1876-1938
Folders no. 7,
8,
10

Treviño, Jacinto B., 1883-
Folders no. 40,
46

Vázquez, Ildefonso V., 1890-1915
Folders no. 13,
38

Vázquez, Samuel G., 1886-
Folders no. 33,
34,
52,
53

Villa, Francisco, 1877-1923
Folder no. 8

Calendar of Documents

Box 1, folder 1

Mexico. Presidente: Invitation to a ball addressed to Samuel G. Vázquez. Two
dance cards for the ball, Sept. 23, 1910, also included.

González, Pablo, 1879-1950: Letter to S. G. Vázquez, June
22, 1915, stating that he will call upon Vázquez' services when he
arrives in Mexico, but in the meanwhile Vázquez should continue in his present
occupation.

Heard, L. E.: Letter to Francisco González, June 17, 1919,
from El Paso, Texas, congratulating González on his defense of
Juárez. Written as vice president of the Compañía del
Ferrocarril Nor-Oeste de México. Typed copy.